Last edited by formby (2010-11-27 05:56:35)

Local Community Radio music station -PBS -  http://www.pbsfm.org.au/ - 6 pm - strange wet cold day - its summer and only 17c -been shopping for chairs and couch - =getting old - I have my eye on an Eames copy chair - dunno to get brown or black - http://www.replicafurniture.com.au/ashop/prodimg/b62.jpg -  +  Isamu Noguchi Coffee Table - http://www.replicafurniture.com.au/ashop/prodimg/b45.jpg  - I've got roast chorizo & vegies, spuds, sweet potatoe, butternut punkin, garlic cloves, onion, capsicum, - strangely - Mike Gibbs - ex Musical director Goodies - "If I Should Lose You" - he can tickle the ivories - very cool - tight combo - nice surprise.

Last edited by fxh (2010-11-28 00:20:47)

Bit of an 80's mood at the mo.

Today, one of the best albums of the '80's:

ABC: Lexicon of Love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcchCQuXrH8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpOSMOgpQWU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXPH2-yTwuA&feature=related

Anybody reading Keif's autobiography?  Picked it up at Houston airport when flight was delayed 6 hours.. Very good read so far, recommended for Stones fans..

've seen that book in a few places, but the Stones have never interested me musically. So, really can't be arsed to read about what drugs they were taking or who they had screwed, or screwed them. 

Currently have Charlie Parker on Verve, all the with Strings and Orchestras malarkey, beautiful stuff. Bud Shank and Baker tried strings, but only ever worked for the Bird.

Ah yes, ABC's 'Lexicon of Love'. Over blown 80's production and prissy girly pop and despite all of this, it was and is one of the better albums inspired by the Romantic movement.  Takes me back, but thank god I got into modern jazz, Bukowksi and that whole West Coast cool.

Good stuff. More '80's from a band I don't care to admit once having liked, but once made perfect sense back in 1985:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUBz4J1Gc-w&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWXZ_YK5jYc&feature=related

I raise you Formby, your next card trick.....

You're right FXH, most '80's music is dreadfully awful, case in point the Simple Minds tunes I posted. Naff, its intrinsic value is nostalgia alone. And the Victorians considered nostalgia a mental illness. And they were probably right.

If you ever want reminding how utterly appalling '80's rock was, one needs only purchase the DVD of U2's 'Live Under A Blood Red Sky'. A flabby twit with no charisma who can't dance as a singer, and this was the band that was marketed as the next Who. Well, the Edge was no Townsend and that blonde haired Elvis look alike on the drums was no Keith Moon. I did quite like that song 'Refugee' on the 'War' album though.

More Bird for me this morning, the snow is falling heavily, the coffee's perculating nicely, logs are on the fire and I intend to spend the weekend in a mellow wine haze of cool jazz; Getz, Pepper, Baker, Mulligan and Hawes. The Pacific Jazz and Contemporary CD's are lined up, it may be freezing outside, but its definitely The Lighthouse Club on Hermosa beach Summer 1955 in here.....